Sunday, January 31, 2010
|7:07 AM|
Cikgu: 'So who's supposed to say the command?'
Rep (Yong Zhen): 'Class Bangun'
Class: 'Selamat Pagi...Cikgu Mastura...'
Cikgu: 'Sama-sama. Sila Duduk.' (Same to you, please sit.)
*pauses*(buttons sweater)
Cikgu: 'So class. Who never learn my Bahasa?'
'Those who never go back..and revise....stand now.'
*no one stands*
Cikgu: 'Please be HoNest!'
*no one stands*
Cikgu: 'You. Selamat Pagi.' (Good morning)
Hua Ying: 'Er..er..Selamat Pagi.'
Cikgu: 'Kamu apa khabar?' (How are you?)
Hua Ying: 'Er....'
Cikgu: 'OK. Remain standing. You.'
Cikgu: 'Selamat Pagi.'
Joel: 'Selamat Pagi.'
Cikgu: 'Kamu apa khabar?'
Joel: 'Saya...khabar...baik.' (I'm fine.)
Cikgu: 'Siapa nama kamu?' (What's your name?)
Joel: 'Siapa....'
Cikgu: 'OK. Remain standing also. You.'
And so she goes on and executes the class one by one. And after doing so for the first 5:
Cikgu: 'Those who never revise. Stand now!'
*some stand*
Cikgu: 'These few people! You -
*the whole class stands*
Cikgu: 'Oh. So this is your class. You all didn't go back to revise? You know I can impose examinations?'
Welcome to a new subject for us: Malay Studies. T.T
The dialogue above took place on the second lesson.
This new subject is just so really hard to learn. I can see that Mastura is tryin to teach us real good, but the lesson stays for one hour, then slowly vanishes. It is my malay notebook that helps me regurgitate the stuff.
For our homework due in Lesson 3, we're to learn '1 - 10' in Malay through YouTube. The keyword is 'Mari Mengira'. I tried to find for a better vid. But this is the closest I could get.
Can you catch the first couple of sentences he said? I can only catch something like 'satu saheng sepuluh' (1 to 10?) and something like 'sama-sama'. ('Same')
I watched it on Tuesday, and today I've to watch it again just in case I forget everything tomorrow. Now I wonder how I managed to grasp the subjects Chinese and English. Maybe it's cos I was a toddler then? Learning Malay is something I'm still trying to cope with.
And by far I still find Malay quite hard to digest.
I was wondering. Why in all these years, living on land that belonged Malaya; the only thing I could confidently do in Malay was the National Anthem. Maybe some other International Friendship Day song...but other than that it's nothing.
Sighs :X
Malay Studies tmr.
Onward Mastura.
Onward 2A1.
